Posts in category The State Of Our Forests

Could FEMA do a better job with our wildfire pandemic? Three of our Evergreen Foundation board members are Forest Service retirees. We’ve known them since …

This is part 2 of the series “Covid Congratulations to the U.S. Forest Service…” For part 1 click here. The Forest Service’s very impressive response …

Can you guess the COVID infection rate on Forest Service wildfire lines last summer? Bear in mind, the Forest Service had between 10,000 and 15,000 …

This is part 3 of our series “It’s time to declare war on wildfire”.  You can read part 1 here and part 2 here. In …

This is Part 2 of our series “It’s Time to Declare War on Wildfire.” Part 1 can be found here. This section begins with Rob …

It might be the Christmas season, but you’d never know it from the volume of angry email we’re getting concerning the West’s wildfire pandemic. The …

Sign the attached electronic petition urging Congress to grant the Forest Service the regulatory authorities it needs to treat diseased and dying national forests before wildfires destroy them.

Paul Hessburg, fire and landscape ecologist, addresses his concerns regarding the confusion that persists surrounding the use and meaning of “managed wildfire.”

To Purchase 193 Million Acres, Click Here.   By Steve Wilent If you’ve been reading Evergreen in the past few years or longer, you’ve seen …

Editors Note: Barry Wynsma retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 2011, following a distinguished 33-year career in which he pioneered the development and implementation …